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SUMMARY:Boulder Scientific Distinguished Lecture: Directing molecular behav
 ior at solid-liquid interfaces: How solvents and surfaces influence hetero
 geneous catalysis
LOCATION:Chemistry A101
TZID:America/Denver
DTSTART:20191029T160000
UID:2026-04-03-21-16-36@natsci.colostate.edu
DTSTAMP:20260403T211636
Description:A Boulder Scientific Distinguished Lecture\n\nAbout the Talk:\n
 Heterogeneous catalysts are indispensable in large-scale chemical processe
 s. Adapting catalysts optimized for converting fossil-fuel-derived molecul
 es to handle renewable carbon is a major challenge\, imposed by difference
 s in volatility and solubility. The kinetics of liquid phase transformatio
 ns promoted by heterogeneous catalysts are complicated by partitioning of 
 solvents\, reactants\, and products between the bulk liquid phase and sol
 id-liquid interface\, which may involve confinement in micro and/or mesopo
 res. We probe these effects by quantifying the molecular composition and 
 structure at the interface while simultaneously observing the kinetics of
  catalytic reactions\, using operando magic-angle-spinning NMR spectrosc
 opy. This approach sheds light on the origin of activity and selectivity 
 trends\, as well as changes in mechanism\, arising from covalent and non-c
 ovalent interactions.\nAbout the Speaker:\nScott received her Ph.D. in Ino
 rganic Chemistry from Iowa State University\, under the direction of Jim E
 spenson and Andreja Bakac\, on the activation of O2 and transition metal-c
 atalyzed oxidation mechanisms. She was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow with Jea
 n-Marie Basset at the Institut de recherches sur la catalyse (CNRS) in Lyo
 n\, France\, before joining the faculty of the University of Ottawa (Canad
 a) and was named a Canada Research Chair there. In 2003\, she moved to the
  University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where she currently holds the 
 Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Sustainable Catalysis. She has join
 t faculty appointments as a Distinguished Professor in both Chemical Engin
 eering and in Chemistry &amp\; Biochemistry. She is an Associate Editor fo
 r ACS Catalysis\, a member of the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science\,
  and a member of Scientific Advisory Boards at the Fritz Haber Institute\,
  SUNCAT\, SSRL\, NREL\, JBEI\, Ames Lab\, and PNNL. Her research interests
  include the design of heterogeneous catalysts with well-defined active si
 tes for the efficient conversion of conventional and new feedstocks\, as w
 ell as environmental catalysts to promote air and water quality. She devel
 ops new kinetic and spectroscopic methods to probe reaction mechanisms. In
  2014\, she founded the Mellichamp Academic Initiative in Sustainable Manu
 facturing and Product Design at UC Santa Barbara\, where she now leads an 
 interdisciplinary program in research and education involving about 30 fac
 ulty from chemistry\, chemical engineering\, materials\, environmental sci
 ence\, industrial ecology\, technology management\, political science\, ec
 onomics\, and science communication. 4:00 pm
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